-Lost Ronia today, she was right next to me on the way back to the shack and then she was gone. Didn't hear a scream or a shot just gone. The fogs getting worse now, used to be able to see things in the distance, now I can't even see in front of my own face. Fatigue is back I can't place it really, probably related to the fog, when I'm in light I feel better, outside of it tired like I'd worked all day. I don't know how many other people are left, I'm going to try and make the factory today, I think I saw the train still at the station. Whatever gods are out there guide me, wait I heard someone at the door, maybe its Ronia?
--Final entry of the Dockmaster of Finley Island
My wards were not holding. I mean to an extent they were, they kept firing off frying whatever tried to enter and then leaving not a damn trace of whatever tripped it to begin with. Combined with the tiredness (the journal was right light did make it go away a little bit, but either the fog had gotten stronger or light weaker, it only seemed to stem the tide a small bit) I knew my time in the dockmasters office would not be long if I kept there. On top of that I wasn't hired to just sit and hopefully wait out the problems on Finley Island, I was hired to solve them, so that was what I intended on doing.
I gathered up what supplies I could fit and still be mobile, made sure the oil in the lamp was as stocked as it could be and set out. I could see the shadows in the fog again, I knew it wasn't just my eyes playing tricks and the dockmasters journal confirmed that. Whatever they were they didn't make a sound. My own boots thumped on the wooden dock with each step no matter how carefuly I made them, but these creatures flittered about like some kind of bird or winged creature (maybe they were? I had no idea at the time). I kept the lamp in my right hand and my sword held in front with my left, visions of some silent killer that didn't really exist picking me off before I could see it danced in my head. I made it off the dock I'd come in on and to the concrete beyond it, I saw signs of people leaving in a hurry, crates, clothing, and spoiled food lay spilled all over. The fog seemed to fight my every step, getting thicker as I went in deeper, but the dockmaster had mentioned a train and I figured if it was still there maybe I could get it running and have a rolling light source all the way to the factory (modest hopes).
It was this kind of optimism that had me looking up and not down and I tripped over someones spilled luggage and came crashing to the ground. My lamp shattered (so the luck that I had in the asylum was lost in this horrid place), igniting the the oil spreading out from it and actually providing more light than I had previously. This was a blessing and a curse as I now saw one hulking sea creature approaching me. It had two legs, one huge claw (on it's right side) and tentacled face. I've never been one for eating sea food so I have no idea if this was a larger creature that normally exists in the water, or some ugly hybrid. All I know is that it looked to want Trezlan tar tar and I'm not a big fan of being eaten (I didn't have time to figure out how the hell this creature was able to be quiet up until my lantern illuminating it, sue me I was kind of in a rush). I tried to think fast, I conjured fire with my now free right hand and launched it at the creature. It vanished! I was about to cheer (silently, you know a little pep cheer in my head), but the creature appeared again closer this time, like I'd blinked and it had moved. Suddenly I recalled my runes killing things and not actually killing them.
I'll admit I fled, I didn't care where at the time. The smart move probably would have been towards the dockmasters office, but I've stated many times never been one for the smart move. Plus with the fog I really couldn't figure which place I was running, its surprising I didn't end up just running into the water and potentially drowning. By whatever luck I run my life by I managed to make it to the abandoned train station (it wasn't really luck in my running I found light and ran toward it). The problem became of course that the station was meant as a transfer place not exactly a closed in location, so while the lights were there it was also covered in fog, so potentially the creatures. I didn't have a lot of time to plot out a path, I just snagged one of the hanging lanterns made my way for a door, opened it and shut it behind me. It was only after I looked inside I realized I'd basically hid in a small supply closet. Whatever creature was pursuing me (if any) slammed at the door behind me closing off another attempt to find a better locale.
So plus's I was where the train was supposedly, minus's I was trapped in a closet with a creature smashing against the door. So like two steps forward three steps back type situation.
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